Note 7 — THE REAL PRISONER OF CHILLON: A GENTLEMAN GROSSLY MISREPRESENTED.
Reading edition
The story is told by Bonivard himself in his Chronicles, and may be found in full detail in the Second Series of Dr. Merle d'Aubigné's volumes on the Reformation, vol. i. chaps. viii. and x. The story that Pecolat, about to be submitted a second time to the torture, and fearing lest he might be again tempted to accuse his friends, attempted to cut off his own tongue with a razor, seems to be authenticated. The whole story is worthy of being told at full length in English, it is so full of generous heroism.